I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill. open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...

It's not enough to tell people to be "outraged." What precisely is it that you want them to DO? This is where so much falls apart and where a number of people fall short. Part of it is that people do not actually know what they want people to do; the other part is that it's DIFFICULT to organize ppl

we will need the biggest Marshall plan of all after we beat this ugly thing back into its hole that plan must be focused on rebuilding civil society, accountability, and denazification to the utmost extent possible

This is from THE CATO INSTITUTE, people. A right-wing think tank. www.cato.org/commentary/e...

So far it looks like Trump, Noem, and operation metro surge drained Minneapolis alone—not yet counting St. Paul, Bloomington, etc.— $203 million. This was a MAGA Trump assault on an American blue city. Nothing more. Start seeing it. www.fox9.com/news/operati...

"Instead, we shall simply show the world why it is struggling, and consciousness of this is a thing it must acquire whether it wishes or not." - Karl Marx, correspondence with Arnold Ruge, 1843

"Here is the truth, on your knees before it! It means that we shall develop for the world new principles from the existing principles of the world. We shall not say: Abandon your struggles, they are mere folly; let us provide you with true campaign-slogans."

Political scientist Dan Gillion analyzed presidential speech and found that Obama talked about race and racial issues less than any other modern president

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines

Where to find several bands that will be marching through New Orleans this holiday season. https://capitalbnews.org/hbcu-marching-bands-performing-during-mardi-gras/

ICE doesn't ever "leave" any state. There will continue to be ICE and CBP enforcement actions as there were during previous presidents. Hillary Clinton was saying this in her remarks. She doesn't like the visible violence but she is fine with "regular" violence.

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

“The government here likewise asserts truth is no longer self-evident, but rather the property of the elected chief magistrate and his appointees and delegees, at his whim to be scraped clean, hidden, or overwritten.“

Abolitionist organizer and author @prisonculture.bsky.social offers youth living through the current crises a renewed perspective on how to move forward. inthesetimes.com/article/mari...

"How can we ethnically cleanse at scale if we have to obey the law?"

My three main issues: - Neither man has heard of the Fourth Amendment. - Sanchez did not explain that administrative warrants do not involve a judge. - Sanchez did not explain and Alford ignored that this was a change secretly implemented by DHS in this administration.

They wanted him to win, to brutalize minorities, to keep taxes low, and to rule us like a King

NOW in Minneapolis: About a thousand are gathered at Stewart Park for a rally and march. The Day Out For Democracy March is organized by Minnesota AFL-CIO.

Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding: Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

There's a @adambonica.bsky.social blog post for everything data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-regula...

Same as it ever was

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) was an American statesman, philosopher, and Founding Father who authored the Declaration of Independence, served as the third U.S. president, advanced religious liberty, expanded the nation through the Louisiana Purchase, and shaped early American political ideals

Dragon Run is part of the ancient Indigenous homelands for a number of Virginia tribes, and during Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676, several tribes used their knowledge of the area to outmaneuver and evade Bacon’s forces. Now, 2.5 miles of the area has been conserved. virginiamercury.com/2026/02/16/6...

HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN. They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...

Political historian Rebecca Edwards shows how domineering vs. benevolent sexism distinguished late 19th & early 20th C coalitions. White Southern Dems as domineering patriarchs, Northern Reps as benevolent sexists, w/ many exceptions, & fits realigned coalitions today. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Melinda Cooper pulls no punches 🔥🔥🔥 "Primal fathers want an extended household, not a family. They gladly transgress the conservative taboos against adultery, incest and intergenerational sex because all members of their household have the status of servant, whatever their blood relationship"

The exhibit uses sounds, artifacts, documentaries and pictures to tell the story of how historically Black colleges and universities have remained resilient from their existence. capitalbnews.org/smithsonian-...

"As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed, with its motto "Ignorance is Strength," this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal govt has the power it claims to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not."

[People are always surprised when I share during my Black women in Greenwich Village tour that GV is probably the oldest FREE Black community in the U.S.] www.villagepreservation.org/2026/02/06/e...

Reminds me of a recent post by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social about how male loneliness only becomes a social *problem* if lonely men are violent men. Men who feel emasculated are embarrassed, but a particular brand of embarrassment that leads them to become violent. www.instagram.com/reels/DOMGr0...

Breaking my social media hiatus to share some good news! I’ve just signed a deal with Basic Books for my next book, Impunity, which uncovers the right’s decades-long effort to destroy political accountability and protect their friends in power. I’m so excited for this one!

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

Hegseth (boorishly): Russia's cool. NATO sucks. Your security problem, Europe, is you're too brown and gay. Vance (condescendingly): Russia's cool. Your security problem is you're too brown and Muslim. Rubio (politely): Who cares about Russia. Your problem is you're not white or Christian enough.

“If the murder of Alex Pretti…cannot be called murder, an authoritarian regime has passed one of its crucial tests: it can reverse all meanings…making the victim the perpetrator, the perpetrator the victim.” —@fotoole.bsky.social

”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

“The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied, and evaded, with no small show of success.“

On President’s Day, I’m thinking about opening the lecture for my race class with a little Presidential history.

it’s exactly what Republicans did to the IRS money in the Inflation Reduction Act

Just noticed the Bhan Gras marcher celebrating his birthday New Orleans-style with dollar bills dangling from his beads. The gumbo of cultures simmering away!

have I mentioned lately that the U.S. press primarily operates as a consolidated corporatist agitprop vessel propping up paper-thin narratives beneficial to affluent conservative ownership?

by "break" do we mean the rampant covid-era price gouging by companies that convinced our shitty press to lazily shift the blame to inflation? because I don't recall a break

VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here! New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more! edopportunity.org/segregation/

Also, every establishment Dem who said illegal immigration was a problem during the Biden admin has some culpability for where we are now.